{"id":398,"date":"2009-02-08T11:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-08T11:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=398"},"modified":"2009-02-08T11:34:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-08T11:34:00","slug":"vegan-sour-cream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=398","title":{"rendered":"Vegan &quot;Sour Cream&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wishiwerebaking\/3263069346\/in\/set-72157605135851684\/\" target=_blank title=\"click to enlarge in new window\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3349\/3263069346_880b5e356f.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=Indent>One of the things we&#8217;ve wished for, in our move towards being vegan (aside from cheese), has been sour cream.  This has been particularly true when eating anything resembling Mexican food.  I&#8217;m sure you can see where this is going, but before we get there, let&#8217;s ask, &#8220;Why didn&#8217;t we think of this earlier?&#8221;  It&#8217;s not like there aren&#8217;t other products out there (e.g. Nayonnaise, soy salad dressings, etc.) which were pointing the way.<\/p>\n<p class=Indent><small>But we&#8217;ll just chalk this lack of imagination up to the fact that when I&#8217;m not working, studying, on my way to the university (taking pictures along the way), I&#8217;m editing those photographs.  Life &#8230; has gotten very busy.  Sorry for the lack of creative food &#038; crafts here, as of late, in other words.<\/small><\/p>\n<p class=Indent>This can hardly be called a recipe, really, but here it is, based on something found out there in the great random-recipe-regurgitator known as Google.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<b>Vegan Sour Cream<\/b>:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wishiwerebaking\/3263055190\/in\/set-72157605135851684\/\" target=_blank title=\"click to enlarge in new window\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3388\/3263055190_bce6cdffaf_m.jpg\" align=right \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>1 block silken tofu<\/li>\n<li>2 Tbsp lime juice<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp oil-of-your-choice<\/li>\n<li>2 tsp distilled vinegar<\/li>\n<li>1\/8 tsp salt<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp sugar<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Notes:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>It doesn&#8217;t matter if it&#8217;s firm or soft tofu, it just has to be silken.<\/li>\n<li>You could use lemon juice instead of lime juice &#8211; the original recipe did &#8211; but we had lime on hand, so that was the choice.<\/li>\n<li>Adjust the oil quantity to match your taste for the richness of sour cream.  The original recipe called for 1 Tbsp of oil, which we cut to 2 tsp, and was still a bit much.<\/li>\n<li>The quantity of vinegar &#8230; really didn&#8217;t seem to matter.  We added more and it didn&#8217;t have anywhere near the impact of adding more lime juice, so feel free to omit it altogether.<\/li>\n<li>Feel free to adjust this upwards, as well, to possibly 1\/2 tsp or so.  We tend to skimp on the salt &#038; add it on an individual basis.<\/li>\n<li>We did it.  We&#8217;re confused by it.  We may omit it next time, because &#8230; well, is sour cream really at all sweet?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Blend it with an immersion blender (or whatever you&#8217;ve got) until it&#8217;s creamy and adjusted to your taste.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It couldn&#8217;t be easier, and is absolutely wonderful.  The lime is a wonderful addition, particularly for use with Mexican food.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/3.0\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" style=\"border-width:0\" src=\"http:\/\/i.creativecommons.org\/l\/by-nc-nd\/3.0\/80x15.png\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>This work is licensed under a<br \/>\n<a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/3.0\/\">Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things we&#8217;ve wished for, in our move towards being vegan (aside from cheese), has been sour cream. This has been particularly true when eating anything resembling Mexican food. I&#8217;m sure you can see where this is going, but before we get there, let&#8217;s ask, &#8220;Why didn&#8217;t we think of this earlier?&#8221; It&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-recipe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}